{"id":217687,"date":"2026-06-12T19:17:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T19:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/217687\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T19:17:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T19:17:06","slug":"scranton-police-seek-publics-help-identifying-person-who-allegedly-abandoned-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/217687\/","title":{"rendered":"Scranton police seek public&#8217;s help identifying person who allegedly abandoned dog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 The Scranton Police Department is asking for the public&#8217;s help identifying a person wanted for questioning after a dog was allegedly abandoned outside a city school.<\/p>\n<p>According to police, the individual is wanted in connection with an incident in which a dog was found leashed to a fence at South Scranton Intermediate School on Maple Street.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said the abandonment occurred sometime overnight between June 11 and June 12.<\/p>\n<p>Police have released photographs of the individual and are asking anyone who recognizes the person or has information about the incident to come forward.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to contact Scranton Police Animal Control by email at kneary@scrantonpa.gov or by calling 570-445-5522.<\/p>\n<p>Anonymous tips may also be submitted online through the Scranton Police Department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 The Scranton Police Department is asking for the public&#8217;s help identifying a person&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-217687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}